The North Pacific High has nothing to do with cannabis. But it has plenty to do with lots of living creatures, movable and not.
The weather system shows up from time to time, alternately stressing and helping creatures in different parts of the west. The North Pacific High is getting more variable with climate change, though.
And scientists, including Bryan Black at the Marine Science Institute of the University of Texas, believe the variability could create a synchronicity, a real boom-and-bust cycle for some species. Emphasis on bust. Bryan Black shares the details in this interview.